Honoring women writers

My introduction to “serious” Philippine fiction was reading “A Night in the Hills” by Paz Marquez Benitez in my older brother’s copy of Philippine Prose and Poetry (I can’t recall which volume) during the war years.

Of course in grade school we had the Camilo Osias’ Philippine Reader but “A Night in the Hills” was the most memorable Filipino short story I read—leaving a profound effect on me.